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Dressed in white, Mahmoud Salah, left, and Awad Suleiman, right, stand in the dock during their trial for the murder of 28-year-old Khaled Said in June 2010. (AFP Photo)

Egypt: Police officers jailed for murder of Khaled Said

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Mar 4, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced two police officers to 10 years in prison for the murder of Khaled Said, an Egyptian from Alexandria whose brutal death helped spark to the eruption of the revolution in Egypt in 2011. The two police...

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A protester, who opposes Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, holds up his hands, which are chained together, to symbolise the lack of freedom, as protesters chant slogans during a demonstration against Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 22, 2013. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

Arab Spring States Lack Experience

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jan 26, 2013 | Opinion

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the Arab Spring has brought people who have no experience in governing and managing countries to power, which has led to confusion, chaos, and a lack of security, citing the recent developments in North Africa. However...

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US President Barack Obama (R) meets with Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

The Arab Spring: Obama’s Vietnam?

by Adel Al Toraifi | Jan 23, 2013 | Opinion

In a telephone call between former United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Richard Russell (May 1964), the president admitted that the Vietnam War could be a protracted one and that he did not see any signs for a resolution on the horizon. Despite this,...